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  • NPD: 75 percent of US iPhone, iPod touch users download content, other 25 percent think Opera Mini is a tiny concert

    NPD: 75 percent of US iPhone, iPod touch users download content, other 25 percent think Opera Mini is a tiny concert

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    While we can't honestly imagine an iDevice user going about their life without connecting to the iTunes App Store at least once in a blue moon -- if not on a semi-permanent basis -- the statistically-significant NPD Group decided to look into the matter regardless. Sure enough, the org reports that a full three-quarters of iPhone and iPod touch users in the US do indeed download apps and entertainment content from the internet. In case you're wondering, that figure beats the pants off those connecting from their video game consoles (19 percent) or Blu-ray players (17 percent), but both of those are obviously biased towards physical, disc-based media. Before you dismiss these findings as obvious, however, let's read between the lines -- if 75 percent of Apple's touchscreen devices are pulling content from the web, that means the other one-quarter have gone without. If not apps, what the heck are those devices being used for?

    NPD: 75 percent of US iPhone, iPod touch users download content, other 25 percent think Opera Mini is a tiny concert originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 07:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • A Trojan Horse Arrives In The Internet-Connected TV Room

    A Trojan Horse Arrives In The Internet-Connected TV Room

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not the norm for a startup based in London's Silicon Roundabout (yes, it's our little bit of the Valley) to be in the hardware business, let alone the highly competitive world of consumer electronics. But that's precisely the position that 3view find themselves in. The company's Internet connected set-top box, which marriages the worlds of over-the-air broadcast television and Internet TV (IPTV), is poised to compete directly with TVs and set-tops from the likes of Sony, Pioneer, Sharp, Humax, Pace and others, and to some degree, the online video and media playback capabilities of Microsoft's XBox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles.

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  • Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet adapter is a gift from the gods

    Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet adapter is a gift from the gods

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Today's TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, and even AV receivers crave access to the Internet, but most will never get the pleasure of the 'Net. Why? Because Mom and Pop don't wanna run a CAT-5 cable through their house and power line adapters are about as reliable as two tin cans connected with string. But now there's this: Netgear's Universal Wi-Fi adapter.

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  • Confirmed: Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    Confirmed: Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Rumor no more! Are you standing? Then sit down. Are you sitting down? Then stand up, then sit down again, for there's huge news to share: Michael Jackson is now confirmed to have written the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

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  • WTF: College student faces up to 10 years in prison for modding game consoles

    WTF: College student faces up to 10 years in prison for modding game consoles

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    This is just ridiculous. Doesn’t the federal government have better things to do than track down college kids who mod their game consoles? Seriously. Matt Crippen, a 27-year-old CSU-Fullerton student has been indicted on two counts of violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. He faces up to 10 years in prison for modding his (and [...]

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  • Sony loses $390.5 million

    Sony loses $390.5 million

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Poof! Sony lost $390.5 million in the first quarter compared to a profit of almost $800 million in Q1 last year. TV sales are way down along with still and video cameras. Samsung, it seems, is kicking their butt.

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  • Netgear and OpenDNS to filter traffic, replace parents

    Netgear and OpenDNS to filter traffic, replace parents

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm guessing that a lot of households utilize filters on computers to, well, keep the kiddies away from, you know, the Internet sites you look at. Netgear and OpenDNS aim to take that task away from the individual computer and start filtering at the router. That way, every device connected to the Internet through that router - including iPod touches, game consoles, and every computer - will be subject to filtering.

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  • Homebrew PC features 2MHz hand-wrapped CPU

    Homebrew PC features 2MHz hand-wrapped CPU

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments

    BMOW (Big Mess O' Wires) is a DIY PC, complete with a hand wrapped 8-bit CPU. Built by a game developer named Steve Chamberlain, this bad boy operates at 2MHz and sports 512KB memory, two-color video output, and a 512 x 480 display. According to Wired, the processor is closest in design to the MOS Technology 6502 (previously seen in such classic machines as the Apple II, Commodore 64, and some early Atari game consoles), and it took him about a year and a half from design to finish. Visitors to the Maker Faire in San Francisco can see the machine in person (and play chess on it, to boot) over the weekend. The rest of yinz can feel free to hit the read link for meticulous build details and lots of colorful pictures.

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    Homebrew PC features 2MHz hand-wrapped CPU originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 14:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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